Channel Islands, Laws of the, 242-243, 248-257 Charges, prejudice against, 271 Charles I., Trial of, 182 Chaucer's compliment to the law, 268 Cheltenham, Manor of, 94 Chemical test, 220 Christians, early punishment of, 137 Church and ordeals, 29 Clarke, Sidney W., Barbarous Punishments, 132-144 Clement's Inn, 260 Cock-Fighting in Scotland, 196-204 Cockieleerie Law, 200-204 Cock, tried for laying an egg, 154 Commonwealth Law and Lawyers, 178-196 Continental Feudalism, 77-82 Conveyancing Symbols, 50-51 Copyhold, 49, 83 Corsnedd, ordeal of, 35 Commandments, breaking, 3 Cross, ordeal of the 33 Crown, 56 Coventry Acts, 142-143 Court Baron, 84 Customary Court, 84 Crucifixion, 136 Dead bodies brought to place of judgment, 232 Debts, limitation of, 9 Declining knighthood, 63-64 Defilement, 8 Delivery of turf or twig, 50 Deposition of kings, 56 Devices of the Sixteenth Century Debtors, 161-164 Divine right of kings, 193 Dog carrying, 140 Dogs in recognition of tenure, 101 Dream evidence, 214-217 Dudley lands, 64 Durham Sanctuary, 17, 19 Escheats, 226 Emma, Queen, tried by ordeal, 30 Englishry, law of, 70 Executing gipsies, 167, 170 Failure to extripate gipsies from England, 170 Fatal Links, 205-223 Father, powers of, 9 Ferocity of forest laws, 119 Feudal lord, powers of the, 64 Feudal system, 58-62 Fining jurymen, 124 Fire ordeal, 28 Flagellation, 61 Flags, rendering for tenure, 101 Forests, great, 115-116 Forgery, punishments, 142 Fortune telling, 169 France, penal laws of, 140-141; Trials of animals in, 149-154 Frankalmoign, 103 Free alms, 103-104 Fridstools, 17, 20 Frost, Thomas, Trial by jury in Old Times, 122-131; Trials of animals, 149-160; Little Inns of Court, 258-266 Furnival's Inn, 265 Gavelkind, 106-107 Ghosts, 217-220 Gibbet, gipsy rescued from, 176 Gipsies, laws relating to the, 165-178 Glove, 92 Godiva story, 74 Grand Serjeantry, 100 Great Civil War, 179 Greenacre case, 209 Hampden, John, 182 Hanged, drawn, and quartered, 133-134 Hasp and staple symbol, 52-53 Hat as a symbol, 53-54 Hawaii, ordeals in, 25 Henry VIII., laws against gipsies, 169 Hereford Fair, 101 Heresy, 228 Heriots, 91-92 Herrick on lawyers, 269 High treason, trial for, 122-124; punishments for, 132-135 Hindoos, ordeals of the, 26-27 Holzmann, Maria Ann, murder of, 206-209 Homage, 53 Homicide, 11 Horse, trial of, 151 Hot iron, ordeal of, 27, 30, 31, 32 Howlett, England, the Manor and Manor Law, 83-94; Ancient Tenures, 95-108 Hugh of Avalon, 120 Ignorance, sin of, 7 Iniquities, legal, 145 Irish Island Laws, 238-239 Isle of Man, Laws of the, 243-247 Island Laws, 237-257 Jews, extortions of, 73 Jocular tenure, 102 King's power limited, 12
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